dynamic web sites 2

[twcman]

I have been searching this forum but found no answer so I decided to post.
I have a couple of ecommerce websites. They have template pages that pull products from database. Without a page for each product, what is the best way to optimize these types of sites for search engines? The only dumb questions are the ones that are never asked

 

[DoubleV]

i am not an expert on seo, but here's what i know;
se's cannot read your dynamic pages. many have problems with stuff appended to urls.
in a case like this, your best bet is to play with doorway pages. you have to be careful with those as not to get to a point of se spamming, but let me illustrate my point.
take a look at this page:

http://online-perfume.com/women/Eternity-Calvin-Klein.html

If you go to

http://169.207.238.189/search/

and type "eternity perfume" - that page will be #7.
Most of the listings on that page are good examples of doorways. They are product specific and they get traffic to the main site. In other words, the pages are relevant to the search term and will not be considered spam.

Now look at this one:

http://www.ezaccommodation.com/desi...grance_cologne_eternity_gift_set_for_her.html

There are a ton of different words all stuffed into one page. Broken images, ugly. It's about #30 on Inktomi. I bet this one's not even on Google.
this is an example of what not to do with your doorway page.

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[DoubleV]

no matter what you do - static pages are the ones that will get you listed and rated.
other "types" of static pages you could use are ones that talk about the kind of products you sell.
i do not know what your site is about, but if it is, sya, about candles, you could put up static pages about history of candles and cadlemaking, the process of candlemaking etc and submit those to se's as well. of course, those static pages will be having links to your store pages. --------------------------------------------------
Goals are dreams with deadlines

 

[DoubleV]

sorry to be flooding this with many posts, but i have another idea for a static page - each week/month have a featured product on a static page. --------------------------------------------------
Goals are dreams with deadlines

 

[foxdev]

My largely-dynamic site gets spidered by Google and AllTheWeb just fine (go to Google and type: [tt]allinurl:www.lowcostprints.com[/tt] then click the show all results link), but it took some doing.

It seems that Google (my most important target) had no trouble reading URLS with one or two variables, but with more than three, it refused. By taking my longer URLs and creating links to them that are shorter (one var), I have had great success. --------------

http://www.lowcostprints.com

 

[onlinexpert]

Dynamic urls always fare bad compared to plain htm pages in google. There are many ways thru which extra characters such as ?,! etc cud be parsed but still I believe in plain htm doorway pages for stable top positions... M Shabir
onlinexpert@hotmail.com
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Web Marketing & Search Engine Optimization Expert

 

[Wullie]

Hi All,

I'm with foxdev on this one, Google has no problem indexing and ranking dynamic pages. I have a few dynamic sites that rank top for certain highly targetted keywords.

Hope this helps Wullie

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